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EcoJustice Radio
EcoJustice Radio presents environmental and climate stories from a social justice frame, featuring voices not necessarily heard on mainstream media. Our purpose is to amplify community voices, broaden the reach of grassroots-based movements, and inspire action. We investigate solutions for social, environmental, and climate issues with an eye to advance human health, steward wild landscapes, and solve the climate crisis across the USA and the world. Featured weekly on KPFK Los Angeles and KPFT…
Episodes
EcoJustice RadioToxic Exposure: The Monsanto Roundup Trials & The Search For Justice with Dr. Chadi Nabhan
For years, Monsanto declared that their product Roundup, the world's most widely used weed killer, was safe. But in 2015, scientific studies concluded that…
EcoJustice RadioNature, Culture, & the Sacred: Reinventing Leadership and Reclaiming the Feminine with Nina Simons
Leadership: what does it mean to lead in our times? Perhaps our times are requesting that we all express leadership in our own unique ways and forms. Etymology…
EcoJustice RadioFuture of Environmental Justice with Former EPA Dr. Mustafa Santiago Ali
Breathing clean air and drinking clean water are fundamental rights. However, these rights have been denied to many low-income communities and communities of…
EcoJustice RadioReconnecting to the Soil and Restoring our Ecological Memory with Ray Archuleta
While we continue to hear of and experience the perils of global heating and climate disruption, some of us fundamentally understand that the ecosystem is not…
EcoJustice RadioDo Environmental Regulations Stop Clean Energy and Affordable Housing?
The transition from a fossil-fuel economy to a clean-energy economy is going to require the United States to build a lot of solar, wind, geothermal, energy…
EcoJustice RadioRestoring Our Relationship to Water Through Traditional Knowledge with Boris Ochoa-Tocachi
Water security. Water quality. Access to water. The threat of water privatization. Our relationship to water and how we value it. Ours is a future where the…
EcoJustice RadioHow Feedback Loops Accelerate Global Climate Disruption
Greenhouse gases from fossil fuels, such as carbon dioxide and methane, are warming the planet. This warming is then setting in motion ice and permafrost…
EcoJustice RadioTAWA: Food Waste Rescue and Composting At Scale
According to the LA City Sanitation District, a staggering 4,000 tons of food waste is generated in Los Angeles County on a daily basis. This food includes…
EcoJustice RadioTiny Living: Right-Sizing Our American Dream
As house prices escalate, the concept of living in smaller homes has gone viral. Whether fixed to land or portable, the tiny house movement has swept across…
EcoJustice RadioTribute to the Late Urban Provocateur Mike Davis
On this show we feature the late writer and activist Mike Davis, labeled an “urban historian,” who further took on geography, politics, economics, sociology…
EcoJustice RadioCharleston: Race, Water, and the Coming Storm with Susan Crawford
In the coming decades, at least thirteen million coastal U.S. residents will have to pack their bags and move from their homes, rising sea levels and…
EcoJustice RadioBiodynamics: A Holistic Approach to Farming & Gardening
Biodynamics emerged through the work and passions of Austrian philosopher and scientist Dr. Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925). It began with his infamous lectures in…
EcoJustice RadioBig Banks Keep Funding Climate Chaos
Multiple banks have pledged to clean up their fossil fuel funding with net-zero carbon commitments, but they continue business-as-usual, pushing for profit by…
EcoJustice RadioCHERP Solar: The Promise and Potential of Locally Grown Power
Solar. Wind. Renewable energy. The Biden administration issued a plan that envisions the US generating 45% of its electricity from solar panels by 2050…
EcoJustice RadioStop Saving the Planet - A Maniesto For Effective Environmental Change
We’ve been “saving the planet” for decades and environmental crises just continue to compound. All this Tesla driving, green-roofed corporate headquarters…
EcoJustice RadioThe Textile Dilemma: From Manufacturing, To Waste, To Solutions
The fashion industry contributes to roughly 10% of all global carbon emissions (releasing 1.2 billion tonnes of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere every…
EcoJustice RadioNow Give It Back: Indigenized Futures & the Land Back Movement with Dr. Cutcha Risling Baldy
Land Back, the movement to return the stolen lands of the USA, also known as Turtle Island, to the original Indigenous peoples who inextricably belong to them…
EcoJustice RadioDebunking the Skeptics: Real Solutions For A Clean, Renewable Energy Future with Mark Z. Jacobson
Is a 100% clean, renewable energy future by the year 2050 possible? Our guest, Stanford Professor Mark Z. Jacobson proposes that the most efficient and…
EcoJustice RadioSacred Sueños Project: Restoring the Cloudforests of Ecuador
Sacred Sueños Reforestation Project: Off-Grid and Off-Road in the Andes A simple life. Many of us dream of this. Especially those living separated from the…
EcoJustice RadioRight to Recreation: The History of African American Leisure Sites with Alison Rose Jefferson
From the late 1800s to the early decades of the 1900s, African Americans started to occupy and steward recreational sites and public spaces throughout the…
EcoJustice RadioGlyphosate: Killing More Than Weeds? With Kelly Ryerson
Glyphosate is one of the most common ingredients in herbicides, and the main ingredient in Bayer/Monsanto's infamous weedkiller: Round Up. The latter is one of…
EcoJustice RadioPoaching the Sacred: The Fight to Preserve White Sage
Fueled by influencers, celebrities, and a wellness community, white sage has become a hot commodity from body products to the infamous smudging sticks of…
EcoJustice RadioBuilding the Future: The Neuroscience of Feeling and Bottom-Up Governance
For over two thousand years we have overlooked the scientific and cultural impact of human feeling. USC neuroscientist Dr. Antonio Damasio argues feelings and…
EcoJustice RadioThe Truth About Hydrogen: Green Fuel or Greenwash?
The fossil fuel industry has been promoting hydrogen as a reliable, low carbon, next-generation fuel to power cars, heat homes, and generate electricity…
EcoJustice RadioDark Waters: Attorney Rob Bilott’s Battle Against Dupont To Expose Forever Chemicals
Devil's urine. That's what Dupont employees called PFAS. These toxic, human made forever chemicals are now in the blood of almost every human on the planet…
EcoJustice RadioOn Wildlife Connectivity and Crossings with Beth Pratt
The proliferation of suburban sprawl, built where wildlife live and thrive, threatens the safety and genetic diversity of wild animals and plant species…
EcoJustice RadioBurning Cedar: Revitalizing Indigenous Foodways & Sovereign Wellness with Nico Albert Williams
In 1830 the U.S. government implemented the Indian Removal Act, which led to the infamous Trail of Tears (1837-39), the removal or forced relocation of the…
EcoJustice RadioZeroHouz: The Challenge of a Zero Emissions Home
What would it take to transform a 100 year old house sitting near oil fields into the most sustainable clean energy zero-emissions house? That was the…
EcoJustice RadioDr. Elaine Ingham on Healing the World's Ecosystems with the Soil Food Web
The UN has classified at least 40% of the Earth’s land as degraded. That figure is estimated to be somewhere between 1 billion, even up to 6 billion hectares…
EcoJustice RadioBuilding Community and Halting the Gas Export Boom on the Gulf Coast with Roishetta Ozane
The Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Texas face a petrochemical and fracked gas export boom. Super-heat-charged hurricanes strike almost every year. As a result…
EcoJustice RadioIndigenous Voices from the Northeast: Past, Present and Future
Native people inhabited the Connecticut River Valley of western Massachusetts for more than 10,000 years. It is the homeland of many First People, all related…
EcoJustice RadioMicroplastics Are Everywhere: What’s The Risk?
Microplastics, small, micro sized plastic fragments are showing up in our water sources, rain, drinking water, and beverages like beer. It is in food, salt…
EcoJustice RadioHow the Soil Sponge and Essential Biological Workers are Changing the World with Didi Pershouse
The Earth’s water cycle, carbon cycle, and nutrient cycle depend on a healthy soil sponge, which is created and maintained by the ongoing work of other…
EcoJustice RadioCircular Fashion: Designing for Equity & Environment
Just as we analyze the impacts of our food and energy use, equally important is understanding from where our clothes originate, their environmental and social…
EcoJustice RadioSow A Heart Farm: Regeneration and Rethinking Food Systems
Some 12,000 years ago, our ancestors in the Fertile Crescent turned from being hunter-gatherers to farming. Today, agriculture consumes one-third of global…
EcoJustice RadioPoetry & Politics: Confronting Injustice in an Era of Diminishing Opportunities with Matt Sedillo
The poetry of Matt Sedillo [https://www.mattsedillo.com/] -- a fearless, challenging and at times even confrontational blend of humor, history and political…
EcoJustice RadioRe:wild Your Campus: Supporting Health, Biodiversity, and Climate
Synthetic herbicides often contain carcinogenic glyphosate and are used largely to eradicate weeds for aesthetic purposes on college campuses and school…
EcoJustice RadioReclaiming Land, Culture, & Narrative Through Black, Indigenous, & Queer Stewardship
On this show we explore the world of Shelterwood Collective [http://www.shelterwoodcollective.org], a Black, Indigenous, and LGBTQ-led community forest and…
EcoJustice RadioHistoric Political Transitions in Honduras, Colombia, and Haiti - Ep. 149
Two countries in Latin America have had elections where after decades of US-influenced, multinational corporation dominant governments have lost to insurgent…
EcoJustice RadioCultural Fire: Native Land Management and Regeneration with Elizabeth Azzuz
Native peoples have used the tool of fire as medicine. Fire was understood to be a spirit, a healer and sacred in its own right. Traditional Native controlled…
EcoJustice RadioMaking Our Way to Food Forest Abundance with Jim Gale - Ep. 148
Many people are aware of the Victory Gardens that were hallmarks of WWI and WWII, where people in the United States and in other countries were growing food at…
EcoJustice RadioOn Community Resistance to Fossil Fuel Sacrifice Zone in Port Arthur Texas with John Beard
Unbeknownst to many, the United States is soon to be the largest exporter of oil and gas. With increased drilling and fracking in the Texas Permian Basin and…
EcoJustice RadioGoing Local: Drought Resilience, Storing Rain & Soil Regeneration - Ep. 147
The National Oceanic & Atmospheric Association recently reported that half of the mainland U.S. is currently undergoing drought. The West is experiencing the…
EcoJustice RadioLost Children of Turtle Island: The Forgotten History of Indian Boarding Schools
The truth about the US Indian boarding school policy has largely been written out of the history books. Started in the 1800s across the US and Canada, Indian…
EcoJustice RadioLife Over Lithium: Protecting the Sacred Site Peehee Mu’huh (Thacker Pass)- Ep. 146
Lithium is essential to all battery technology currently in use and development worldwide. Due to the transition to renewable solar and wind energy and…
EcoJustice RadioExposing PFAS: Global Contamination & Rob Bilott’s Battle For Justice - Ep. 145
Devil's urine. That's what Dupont employees called PFAS. These toxic, human made forever chemicals are now in the blood of almost every human on the planet…
EcoJustice RadioThe Wild Yards Project: Transforming Lawns into Biodiverse Habitats - Ep. 144
Our times are demanding that we reconnect to Nature and the place where we live. Given the impacts of the sixth great extinction, it is our personal and…
EcoJustice RadioCommunity Empowerment: Overcoming Superstorm & Petrochemical Invasions w/Roishetta Ozane - Ep. 143
The Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Texas face a petrochemical and fracked gas export boom. Super-heat-charged hurricanes strike almost every year. As a result…
EcoJustice RadioHealing the World’s Ecosystems with the Soil Food Web - Ep. 142
The UN has classified at least 40% of the Earth’s land as degraded. That figure is estimated to be somewhere between 1 billion, even up to 6 billion hectares…
EcoJustice RadioSoulful to Soilful: Cultivating Community Through Urban Composting - Ep. 141
The act of composting ensures that food scraps and green waste are never wasted, but returned to enrich the soil. It sequesters carbon, and helps to minimize…
EcoJustice RadioEthnobotany, Cultural Fire, and Indigenous Stewardship w/ Payoomkawish Elder Richard Bugbee - Ep 140
As momentum continues to grow around the Land Back movement and Indigenous stewardship worldwide, the value of hearing from Elders who have long studied…
EcoJustice RadioThe Truth About Compostable Packaging - Ep 139
This week we look into the truth about compostable foodservice and packaging with Erin Levine, Resource Recovery Manager at World Centric…
EcoJustice RadioNative Habitat: Preserving the Wetlands of the World - Ep. 138
Wetlands are vital to our existence and benefit the ecosystem at large by providing essential habitat for countless species of birds, fish and mammals, slowing…
EcoJustice RadioSolidarity Actions on Climate Justice - Stopping Pipelines and Dirty Banks - Ep. 137
EcoJustice Radio Executive Producer Jack Eidt shares speeches and discussions from multiple street actions on national and international climate…
EcoJustice RadioClimate Change in the Desert with Ecologist James Cornett
The Joshua tree is an icon and ecological keystone of the California deserts. However, climate disruption with hotter, drier summers and more frequent brush…
EcoJustice Radio30 Days of Wearing My Trash with Rob Greenfield - Ep. 136
Each US resident creates an average of 4.5 to 4.9 pounds of trash per day. For many, once it’s in the garbage can, it’s out of sight, out of mind. However…
EcoJustice RadioReforest the Earth: Planting Old Growth Trees in Fight Against Climate Change
Many witnessed the unprecedented loss of ancient Giant Sequoia groves in the Castle Fire in Sierra Nevada, California, the only natural habitat for Sequoias on…
EcoJustice RadioBanking on Climate Chaos - the Fossil Fuel Finance Report - Ep. 135
Multiple banks have pledged to clean up their fossil fuel funding with net-zero carbon commitments, but they continue business-as-usual, pushing for profit by…
EcoJustice RadioDetroit Hives: Honey Bee Farms as Urban Revitalization
For bonus content and other benefits, become an EcoJustice Radio patron at https://www.patreon.com/ecojusticeradio This is an encore presentation of an…
EcoJustice RadioIndigenous Regeneration: Remembering the Past to Inspire the Future - Ep. 134
For an extended version of this interview and other benefits, become an EcoJustice Radio patron at https://www.patreon.com/ecojusticeradio Regeneration…